My body was drenched with beads of sweat and the harsh downpour of the monsoon rain, while walking on an eroding cliff. Agitated at the slippery mud, I walked faster, and faster, and faster… until I slipped. I looked up and was greeted by faces and screams of horror. I looked down but was enticed by a manifestation of the grim reaper: a fast-moving river enshrined with boulders. Then silence. Absolute silence. Yet the screams haven’t stopped, the rain continued to pour even louder and even harder than before. But there was silence. No thoughts. No voices. No emotion. Just peace.

That happened when I was 13, while hiking near Jakarta. Obviously, I managed to climb back onto the trail. I was convinced that was my time to go. I thought I would be afraid, but I wasn’t. For a moment, I accepted my fate. Ironically, that moment was the most peaceful moment I have ever felt in my entire life.

Isn’t it ironic that peace is found closer to death, than in life?

Due to the personal nature of this entry, the rest of it is found at http://asiansoul.livejournal.com. Only a few handpicked livejournal friends have access to it. Sorry.

I’ve been so incredibly busy and I still am. I got papers due, exams coming up. Administrative stuff to do like renewing my visa, looking for an internship and subletting my room. (If you live in Toronto and you need place smack right in the middle of the city from May 12-August 29. Holla up!)

I’ve also been working on my portfolio. The idea has been executed. The logo is designed. The layout is closed to finished. All I need is to translate it into code. It’ll be released sometime in late April/early May. Woot Woot!

You know.. the little white label on all the boxes of foods you get? Yeah those things. So I almost died of a heart attack when I read the nutritional information on the Kimchi Instant Noodles:

Saturated Fat: 43% of Daily Value (DV)

That’s almost as bad as a Whopper! Just that a whopper is infinitely more filling than a pack of flash-fried noodles. (Sorry ladies but it’s less than ONE piece of Godiva truffle)

I’ve been very conscious of nutritional labels since the fateful day when I decided to flip the fast food tray cover around at Burger King. I found out that Iced Tea had twice the amount of sugar than a normal Coke of the same size. Poutine as 150% DV of fat. For all you non-Canadians, Poutine (pronounced as POO-TEEN, and please refrain from saying POO-T’ON, means F***K in French) is gravy-covered french fries. It looks like this:

Anyways, I also found out a 3 piece combo at Popeye’s has almost 1600 calories, that’s more than what a girl around 52kg/120pounds should be eating.

I’ve lost quite a bit of weight after watching these labels carefully. I urge any one who wants to shed some weight to do the same. It’s a lot better than going on crash diets and gaining all the weight back once you stop. Make a life commitment to reading labels. You still get your chips, cookies, sodas and chocolates - but just without the weight gain.

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